Download e-book for kindle: Angles of Attack (Frontlines, Book 3) by Marko Kloos

The alien forces often called the Lankies are accumulating at the sunlight system's aspect, consolidating their conquest of Mars and environment their attractions on the earth. The distant colony of latest Svalbard, bring to an end from the remainder of the galaxy via the Lanky blockade, teeters at the verge of hunger and cave in. The forces of the 2 Earth alliances have received minor skirmishes yet are at risk of wasting the struggle. For battle-weary employees sergeant Andrew Grayson and the ragged forces of the North American Commonwealth, the struggle for survival is coming into a catastrophic new phase.

Forging an uneasy alliance with their Sino-Russian enemies, the NAC launches a hybrid activity strength on a protracted shot: a stealth venture to breach the Lanky blockade and reestablish offer strains with Earth. Plunging into strive against opposed to a cruel alien species that outguns, outmaneuvers, and outfights them at each flip, Andrew and his fellow soldiers may possibly turn out cornered on their domestic turf, without manner out and no wish for reinforcement. And this time, the fight for humanity's destiny can merely lead to both victory or annihilation.

The 12 months is 2312. clinical and technological advances have opened gateways to a unprecedented destiny. Earth isn't any longer humanity's basically domestic; new habitats were created in the course of the sunlight method on moons, planets, and in among. yet during this yr, 2312, a chain of occasions will strength humanity to confront its earlier, its current, and its destiny.

Earth is invaded by means of a suite of alien animals--both predators and prey--as good as extraterrestrial militias of various technological features. Governments fall; towns are overrun. The panorama grows wild, alien forces try to carve out zones of keep watch over, and humanity now not sits atop the nutrition chain.

DELEGATION The President of Thalassa had been in office for only two months and was still unreconciled to his misfortune. But there was nothing he could do about it except to make the best of a bad job for the three years it would last. Certainly it was no use demanding a recount; the selection program, which involved the generation and interleaving of thousand-digit random numbers, was the nearest thing to pure chance that human ingenuity could devise. There were exactly five ways to avoid the danger of being dragged into the Presidential Palace (twenty rooms, one large enough to hold almost a hundred guests).

He might have been even more chastened—or perhaps merely amused—to know that Mayor Waldron was no longer quite so enamored of him. Assistant Chief Engineer Loren Lorenson had impressed more than one of Tarna’s citizens that morning. 15. TERRA NOVA Such a reminder of Earth was an unfortunate name for the settlement, and no one admitted responsibility. But it was slightly more glamorous than “base camp,” and was quickly accepted. The complex of prefabricated huts had shot up with astonishing speed—literally overnight.

I wonder… I wonder… 17. CHAIN OF COMMAND From: Captain To: All Crew Members CHRONOLOGY As there has already been a great deal of unnecessary confusion in this matter, I wish to make the following points: 1. All Ship’s records and schedules will remain on Earth Time—corrected for relativistic effects—until the end of the voyage. All clocks and timing systems aboard ship will continue to run on ET. 2. For convenience, ground crews will use Thalassan time (TT) when necessary, but will keep all records in ET with TT in parenthesis.